In rural Georgia, we heard the story within the next few days…though I don’t know when I found out it was his own father.
The next year was the scariest Halloween ever.
This paragraph from the story made me queazy, a very real southern gothic moment:
“When police got to Whitney Parker’s house, his parents almost died on the spot because they couldn’t find the Pixy Stix,” said Hinton, now a lawyer in private practice. “They found him holding it asleep. His little fingers were not strong enough to get the staples out.”
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'vinnie... // November 7, 2007 at 4:27 pm
In rural Georgia, we heard the story within the next few days…though I don’t know when I found out it was his own father.
The next year was the scariest Halloween ever.
This paragraph from the story made me queazy, a very real southern gothic moment:
“When police got to Whitney Parker’s house, his parents almost died on the spot because they couldn’t find the Pixy Stix,” said Hinton, now a lawyer in private practice. “They found him holding it asleep. His little fingers were not strong enough to get the staples out.”
bmcdee // November 7, 2007 at 8:33 pm
I know- the south is full of a certain kind of creepiness (enough about my family!!) that just cuts to the quick.